WORTH NOTING; A Face for Radio, Not the White House

By George James

Published: June 5, 2005

Call them the odd couple -- Bill Bradley and Howard Stern. Now both of them will have their own program on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Mr. Bradley the former United States senator and pro basketball player, will be the host of a weekly interview program, ''American Voices, '' which will be broadcast 9:30 a.m. Sunday beginning this weekend.

The 61-year-old Mr. Bradley envisions the program as conversations with extraordinary people from around the country.

''For 40 years, I've traveled around the country,'' he said in a telephone interview, ''and I've seen the incredible diversity of the country and the humanity of its people.''

''I want to have listeners hear what I've heard for 40 years,'' he said.

Mr. Bradley, who lives in Verona and has been a managing director for Allen & Company, a Manhattan-based investment bank, since shortly after his failed 2000 presidential campaign, said that he sees the new endeavor as ''an extension of my interest in what America is all about.''

The show, to be broadcast on Sirius Talk Central, channel 148, will be non-partisan. ''Basically, this is not about red and blue states,'' Mr. Bradley said. ''This is about our common humanity.'' George James